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New Kirin KC10 flagship chip appeared, Huawei planning something big?
Despite being banned by the U.S., Huawei is still testing new Kirin chipsets, as recently, a chip name Kirin KC10 has appeared online and surprised many of tech enthusiasts.
The screenshot circulating over Weibo shows Huawei Mate 50 Pro with HarmonyOS 3 software and Kirin KC10 chipset. For your information, Huawei HiSilicon has not listed this chip in its portfolio or official website.
There’s no input available about the Kirin KC10 SoC but it seems like the platform is testing with a testing version of Huawei Mate 50 Pro.
What’s happening?
Tipster ClassmateGuan confirms that this is a screenshot from the testing model and this chip won’t be mass-produced. The tipster also reminded us that Huawei won’t give up on designing new Kirin chips and continue to test them in real devices.
The fact U.S. ban prohibits the company from printing new chipsets via the likes of TSMC and Samsung but can’t rule out HiSilicon from moving on its own.
Therefore, Huawei will continue to innovate internally and will not abandon research and development of semiconductor designs. Still, Huawei may take some time to make a comeback with a flagship Kirin chipset in the future.
Why?
Despite the reason that the company can’t print new chips, Huawei doesn’t want to fall behind in the competition by researching more on semiconductors.
Kirin chips are currently distributed in two categories – flagship and high-end. These include Kirin 9000, Kirin 9000E, Kirin 990 5G, Kirin 990, Kirin 980, Kirin 970, Kirin 960, Kirin 950, Kirin 930, and Kirin 920, The Kirin 910 is the flagship series. Kirin 985, Kirin 820, Kirin 810, Kirin 710, Kirin 650, and Kirin 620 are mid-to-high-end range lineups. While the Kirin 9000 series was the last chipset produced by HiSilicon.
In 2021, Huawei’s rotating chairman Eric Xu said that the company will continue to support HiSilicon. The company also promised to increase R&D investment in its chip designing subsidiary, while also hiring new talent for future projects.
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
Turkey is underway a massive rescue operation and Huawei has raised a hand of help for the country to overcome the earthquake that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent people. During this time, Huawei has provided components, generators, and mobile base stations to help eliminate communication issues in earthquake-affected areas.
On Monday, Turkey is hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, destroying homes and leaving thousands wounded and homeless. As of today, over 17000 people had died in Turkey, surpassing the record of the last decade in the country. This earthquake has now made its place in the most deadly disasters of the century surpassing the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
